Philip thought he’d left all that behind: the late nights, the tepid coffee. The snatched glimpse of loved ones when he got home late or left early for the office. Staring at the incident wall, with the arrows and string connecting the pictures he already knew from memory, waiting for something to shift, a way in, something he’d missed. The boss didn’t like his methods, and pulled him off the case. Would he come out of retirement to fight a no-deal Brexit one last time?

Source: The Times September 08, 2020 08:03 UTC